Thanksgiving - A Thankful HubNugget Holiday Hub

Pilgrim Fathers

Everyone who graduated from Grade School knows about Plymouth Rock, the Founding Fathers, and the first Thanksgiving, which history books place at Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts in 1621.

Although there are different dates for Thanksgiving in Canada, and different origins for the birth of this holiday, Thanksgiving is traditionally a day to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude, and is fondly pictured with men and women garbed as Pilgrims, sharing food with their Native American brethren.

Who would have guessed that from those humble beginnings, we would be able to connect with friends and family all over the world in the blink of an eye with a tool called the Internet.

(You have no idea how hard it was to write with cranberry jelly...it doesn't want to stay put...but I digress...)

Most families will congregate around a table laden with sumptuous delights and delicacies, lorded over by that magnificently aromatic icon of the feast, the turkey. (I am speaking about the bird here...) However, our HubPages family is a little large to fit around one table, so I decided to bring the feast to you in the form of a HubNugget Thanksgiving!

Image by Enelle Lamb | Source

Image by Enelle Lamb | Source

Please bow your heads...

Before we enjoy this sumptuous repast of HubNugget Wannabes I would ask that you bow your heads in thanks for this marvelous selection, and the dedication from our amazing HubPages Staffers, Marketing Director Jason, Group Manager Maddie, and Woman of All Fix-ing Simone, who support our little team as we roam the high seas in search of these nuggets of treasure for us to enjoy. Amen.

The First Course - Pilgrim Patty and De Mayflower Greek

First off, allow me to give thanks to our very own Pilgrim Patty, who, with no thought to her own peril, (and out of earshot of De Mayflower Greek,) leaped into the frigid waters to rescue a group of HubNugget Wannabes from drowning in a sea of obscurity.

Pilgrim Patty managed to secure the group with a lifeline, but the waves threatened to swamp the whole party before they could get to shore.

Thankfully for us, De Mayflower Greek was watching her progress from the bridge of his famous vessel, and ordered a lifeboat into the swells to retrieve them.

His quick thinking averted a disaster and landed them all a tad waterlogged, but safe and sound, on Plymouth Rock!

So, without further ado, I give you the first course of our HubNugget Thanksgiving dinner! These tasty morsels have been cooking all week, and are absolutely divine with stuffing...please pass the gravy...

Image by ProCW

Which one of this week's Pets and Animals nominees is your favorite?

29% Budgies Q & A

6% Cat Love

26% Cougar At Our Door

9% Dementia in Dogs

9% Domino, Former Feral Cat

23% Raising severe macaw babies

35 people have voted in this poll.

This poll is now closed to voting.

The Pets and Animals Nominees

Budgies Q & ABudgies
are the common name of Parakeets or Budgerigars
originating from Australia. Since their captivity in the 1850’s Budgies are one of the
most popular domesticated birds from the Parrot species. Apart...

Cougar At Our DoorCougars are native to Oregon, and there are approximately 5,000 here. I don't consider that a huge number of mountain lions, considering the size of our state, but apparently there are enough that one of them...

Dementia in DogsAs dogs age, their senses begin to decline and they
can no longer see, hear or smell with the same sharpness as before. These are the normal signs of aging, however if these are accompanied by noticable...

Domino, Former Feral CatBefore I can tell the story of my adopted feral cat, Domino, I need to give a little background of how he came to my apartment complex.
Domino's birth mother, herself, is a feral cat who has been living on...

Raising severe macaw babiesI recently raised three severe macaw babies. It is amazing how fast baby parrots change and grow. This photo was taken the day I brought them home. Their eyes were not open yet. It is always scary
the...

Pilgrim Koffee Klatch Gals Image by Enelle Lamb

Pilgrim RedElf Image by Enelle Lamb

Seconds Anyone - Pilgrim Koffee Klatch Gals and Pilgrim RedElf

Our next pilgrim that I would like to give thanks for, is Pilgrim Koffee Klatch Gals, for her relentless courage when faced with finding stray HubNugget Wannabes and for selflessly putting her vast writing skills to the test to bring us such a delightful brew of hubs to warm our hearts... and please pass the potatoes...thank you...as I was saying...

One can't fail to mention Bos'n Pilgrim RedElf, whose valiant efforts to keep the Mayflower afloat, on course to find the HubNugget Wannabes, keep them from getting fouled in the ship's rigging - a terrible place for a lone Wannabe to become stranded, and ensure a safe and sound landing at Plymouth Rock, has not gone unnoticed and definitely, not unsung!

Without their courage and dedication, we wouldn't be able to enjoy this sumptuous repast of Wannabe writing - complete with all the Thanksgiving trimmings...I'll have a little more dark meat please...oh, and please pass the stuffing...

Here they are for your enjoyment - I hope you find them as tender and flavorful as I have...

Image by ProCW

Which one of this week's Family and Parenting nominees is your favorite?

How to not kill your child I am a mother to a 2 1/2 year old boy. Being the new parent that I am, and the difficulties I hit with the "terrible two's", I read every book under the son, from parent psychology to Dr. Phil (which made me...

How to Get Along with TeenagersTeenagers are kind of a different lot. They tend to be unpredictable, and not really into the same things we adults are, like making a living, and cleaning our house. So, how do we get along with these...

The Journal. A Christmas Gift.Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. ~Oscar Wilde~
Christmas was almost upon me and I could not think ofa thingto give my sister. The year before I had given her a journal, a...

Pilgrim ripplemaker and Pilgrim Zsuzsy

I would once again, with your permission of course, I interrupt this wonderful feast to give thanks to two more members of our glorious HubNugget Team, Pilgrim ripplemaker and Pilgrim Zsuzsy Bee.

Our team would be incomplete without Pilgrim ripplemaker's cheerful and heartfelt Wannabe visits, congratulating all the Nominees on their fine works, and Pilgrim Zsuzsy Bee's insightful and humorous encouragement to promote their work and giving them and the rest of the HubPages family of writers their special brand of support.

For dessert, we are serving up a wonderful selection of decedent treats that are sure to please...oh, no thank you...I couldn't...I'm stuffed...well...maybe just one...

The Arts and Design Nominees

10 Crafty Paper Projects!Paper crafts are easy peasy and a great way to recycle. I love paper crafts because I always have paper around the house. Whether it's old newspapers laying around or old magazine pages, scraps from scrapbook...

Coffee Anyone?

After such an amazing banquet, I'm stuffed! I think I might have a teeny bit of room left for a delicious Amarula Coffee in the hopes of staving off the after-dinner-nap!

In closing, allow me to give thanks once again to our dedicated and talented HubNugget Team (including me,) Pilgrim Enelle, for bringing you such a delicious, lip-smacking HubNugget Wannabe feast! Be sure to vote for your favorite entre!

Thank you for honoring one of my hubs for consideration. I never expected this. Gosh, I feel like I've been nominated for an Academy Award. Good luck to everyone nominated. I know there can only be one winner per category. Congratulations to all those who are nominated and good luck.

Feline Prophet 7 years ago

Enjoyed the pilgrimage, Enelle...may your tribe increase! :)

Susan Haze 7 years agofrom Sunny Florida

Enelle, I always love your hubs. This one was extra fun - I loved your story and the photos were adorable. Read , voted and absolutely loved it. Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving.

LaurieDawn 7 years ago

Greetings Enelle!

Thank you for the nomination, I am very flattered! And what a great hub! Such creativity! I have enjoyed floating around and reading all the other great hubs too!

Blessings,

Laurie

Author

Enelle Lamb 7 years agofrom Canada's 'California'

Eiddwen - thank you so much for your lovely compliment! I enjoyed writing this :D

Eiddwen 7 years agofrom Wales

So much work has gone i to creating this hub but the end product was brilliant. you are very talented in your use of words and also your natural way of conveying the hub.

I now look forward to reading more of your work.

Take care.

Author

Enelle Lamb 7 years agofrom Canada's 'California'

LMAO!! I just re-read my comment to ripplemaker! I really did mean to say *drop in not crop in LOL LOL! Guess I should check my spell check more often!!

Author

Enelle Lamb 7 years agofrom Canada's 'California'

kids-toy-box - keep up the great writing and congratulations on your nomination!!

Deborah Demander - Thanks so much for the wonderful compliment! I have a lot of fun writing these hubs :D

Ah Zsuzsy! It's always such a pleasure to see you :D - so glad you enjoyed the feast and friends! (It was a great meal wasn't it? I couldn't eat another bite!)

Zsuzsy Bee 7 years agofrom Ontario/Canada

Coffee or no coffee I'm ready for my after-dinner-nap. I'm stuffed. How awesome to be with so many friends all at once on Thanksgiving. (isn't the internet just the most amazing thing ever...)

Enelle one tasty meal you dished out, tasty, tasty, tasty... yum

Super duper video too... reaches right into the heart.

Congrats Hubnuggeteers on the nominations. You still have some work to do though... can't sit back on your laurels yet. You gotta promote your hubs. Shout it loud and wide, to family and friends alike.

Deborah Demander 7 years agofrom First Wyoming, then THE WORLD

Thank you for all your work on this hub.

Namaste.

kids-toy-box 7 years ago

Wow! another fabulous hubnugget tale...and I feel blessed having my second hubnugget nomination in consecutive weeks:) Thank you so much:D and congratulations to all other nominees.

Author

Enelle Lamb 7 years agofrom Canada's 'California'

De Greek - There is always room for another turkey :P and I thought you looked so dashing in your Mayflower hat...

Patty - which way to the lifeboats - I do enjoy a good game of cat and mouse...

AP - I think I might have had one or two of those olden day turkey messengers...LOL great comment

Wow, thank you so so much! It is such an honour to be nominated!!! And what a wild, wacky, entertaining HubNugget story, as usual. Congrats to all the nominees and thanks to everyone that votes!

Michelle Simtoco 7 years agofrom Cebu, Philippines

Bcatgray, thanks for follow the link: teehee...thank you for making an exception!

Voted, voted, voted! To all the nominees...go, go, go!

bcatgray 7 years agofrom United States of America

Wooohooo! I'm so honored to have contributed to this feast. I don't even like to cook, but this time I guess I'll make an exception! :-)

RedElf 7 years agofrom Canada

AP - but sometimes the turkey never quite made it to all the log cabins - ahhh yes, the olden days - My paw used to say some of those messenger turkeys were mighty tasty!

Read and voted - Congratulations to all the nominees!

A great bunch of hubs, Enelle - make sure you save some turkey for De Mayflower Greek - he'll probably be hungry after saving Pilgrim Patty and the first batch of HubNuggets!

Patty Inglish 7 years agofrom USA. Member of Asgardia, the first space nation, since October 2016

@Alternative Prime - and I'm still wearing the same style of clothing.

Thanks to all who have read and voted, so far!

Michelle Simtoco 7 years agofrom Cebu, Philippines

Dear God, thank you for this Hubnuggets Feast and all of the Hubnuggets Team and the Hubnuggets Wannabes! Blessings and love to all.

Enelle, I am honored and happy to be part of this feast as always. This hub is wonderfully crafted and the photos made me grin. Happy thanksgiving! I am off to do some hubhopping! Be right back! :)

MythiliK 7 years agofrom India --> Switzerland

OMG.... is this true? I am in the hubnugget nomination for the third time. Past two times I won... Now once again, on the way to request all my friends for voting :-) Thank you so much dear team.

Alternative Prime 7 years agofrom > California

Great graphics on the Hub this week as usual...

Hey, some of those "Pilgrims" look mighty familiar though...Great Great Great ancestors of a couple Great Hubbers?

Those were the days....When you wrote a "Hub" on a turkey's back then trained it to fly around to each individual log cabin all over the world so it could be read...It was a much simpler time...

Patty Inglish 7 years agofrom USA. Member of Asgardia, the first space nation, since October 2016

Avast fellow Pilgrims and welcomed Guests!

Since De Mayflower Greek saved the first batch of Wannabes and the lifeline, I've been thankful to read and vote in each category. We'd doubly thankful if all of you would do the same, Goodly Readers :)

I must say, De Mayflower Greek is a much better Captain than the one were were almost burdened with - that one's map showed a course straight for the Devil's Triangle. (No, I've no idea what happened to him. Pay no attention to the mummbling under the tarp of the last lifebopat - it's just a rat.)

De Greek 7 years agofrom UK

So there was no place at your table for another turkey and that is is why you did not invite ME? :-)))

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